Rahul Gandhi: Iran crisis: Rahul Gandhi questions PM Modi’s ‘silence’ on warship sinking in ‘our backyard’ | India News

File photo: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said PM Narendra Modi‘s silence in the wake of “conflict” and the sinking of an Iranian warship showed that the PM had “surrendered strategy sovereignty”. The opposition party also slammed govt for “undoing” the foreign policy painstakingly built over the last seven decades.Rahul…

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Beyond oil: How US-Iran war & Middle East crisis may hit India’s economy – sector-wise impact explained

Petroleum is the most immediate area of exposure. In 2025, India sourced roughly $70 billion crude oil and petroleum products from West Asia. (AI image) Beyond oil, the Middle East crisis has other implications for the Indian economy, especially if the US-Israel-Iran war continues for a long duration leading to major supply disruptions. In recent…

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Maharashtra remains India’s largest economy but posts slowest growth among top four states

Maharashtra continues to remain India’s largest state economy in absolute terms, but its economic growth has been the slowest among the country’s four biggest state economies over the past four years, according to official data.The state’s Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is projected at Rs 42,67,771 crore in 2024-25, the highest among all states, reported…

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US will ‘not make same mistake’ of giving India ‘China-like concessions’, says official

The United States will not extend to India the kind of sweeping economic concessions it once granted China, said Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Thursday, claiming that those incentives allowed China to emerge as a rival.Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue, India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, Landau made it clear that while…

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BEL, Bellatrix ink pact to develop very low Earth orbit satellite systems | India News

BENGALURU: State-run defence electronics major Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has signed a memorandum of understanding with space technology startup Bellatrix Aerospace to jointly design, develop and manufacture satellite systems and payloads, with a focus on the emerging very low Earth orbit (VLEO) regime.“The agreement aims to combine BEL’s experience in mission-critical electronics and defence payloads…

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US stocks today: Dow tumbles 800 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq slip as oil surges after Iran tanker strike

US stock markets fell on Thursday as investors turned cautious after the previous session’s rally, while rising oil prices and geopolitical tensions weighed on sentiment.The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 801 points, or 1.6 per cent, dragged down by losses in stocks such as Caterpillar and Goldman Sachs. The S&P 500 declined 0.9 per cent,…

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Oaktree’s Howard Marks says there’s no systemic problem with private credit

Veteran investor Howard Marks said he doesn’t see a widespread problem brewing in private credit, but warned that the sector’s rapid expansion over the past 15 years could expose weaker lenders when markets eventually turn. “There’s not a systemic problem with private credit,” Marks, co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital, said Thursday on CNBC’s “Money…

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